Chris' Christian Blog

January 13, 2022

P"rompt
James 1:21-25
21 Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.
22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
23 For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass:
24 For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.
25 But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

What do you think all of this means? Forgetting what manner of man he was after walking away from the mirror? This is some good food for thought."

I would have to do a deep dive and analyze this good to come up with a correct answer. I believe just from reading it that what Paul is saying is that we often know what we are supposed to do and how we are suppose to act in a given situation but we soon forget or we cave in to the flesh and give in to the world. All too often Christians get this idea that being saved means being sinless and perfect. It is an idealology that has been in the church since the writings of Augustine. However this is just not the case. Christians are not sinless nor will we ever be sinless in this world. Paul says "Now I see through a glass darkly but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall know even as I am known", 1 Cor. 13:12.

What Paul is saying is that in this world we stumble along because we cannot see clearly. We grope and feel our way along and we make mistakes. We sin and sin often. In the world to come we will see perfectly and there will be no sin, no temptation, no error.

Prompt: I was cruising the galaxy with The Pink Panther and found this planet: Kotaro writes

Morning haiku  (E) In the park #1247341 by Kotaro

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Write about this in your Blog entry today.

I am jealous that Princess Megan Snow Rose got to spend time with Pink Panther. He was always one of my favorites. Of course, her spending time with him would explain why the entire inside of the U. S. S. Constitution (our ship) is pink!

I love haiku and while I did not count the syllables in this one it appears to be a good one. I especially like the way the author spins in a random thought at the end as haiku always does.